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The award is in recognition of outstanding research contributions, early in his career, in wireless communications and networking. His approach to cross-layer wireless design brings together computer networking, signal processing and information theory to solve long-standing problems in wireless networks. Highlights of his research contributions include a practical approach to achieve full-duplex radios (Mobicom'10, MOBICOM'11, SIGCOMM'13) and rateless network design for practical adapation of sender transmission rate (SIGCOMM'11, MOBICOM'12). To quote from his nomination "Sachin Katti’s research has transformed the way we think about wireless communications."

the SIGCOMM eBook project has been launched with the first volume of the open-source eBook on “Recent Advances in Networking” featuring 9 chapters across different topics. check it out: http://www.sigcomm.org/content/ebook
The book is released under the Creative Commons license, and the source-code is also available on GitHub, should the authors or colleagues wish to update or add to the material on a rolling basis. Future versions will be announced soon, for any feedback and suggestions for future topics and format please contact Olivier.Bonaventure@uclouvain.be and hamed@eecs.qmul.ac.uk

The SIGCOMM Executive Committee invites potential hosts of the SIGCOMM 2015 conference to submit proposals. Details of the proposal process are posted at http://www.sigcomm.org/conference-planning/sigcomm-planning/site-proposa... . Proposals should be submitted to Jaudelice de Oliveira, the Conference Coordinator, no later than November 15, 2013. Based on the three-year rotation schedule, the conference will be held in Europe.

For catalyzing a qualitative change in the nature of experimental networking research. By overcoming barriers to planetary scale experimentation and deployment, the authors---and their enduring testbed artifact---ushered in a new era of empirically validated network protocol design, catalyzed community-wide attention to the thoughtful construction and employment of appropriate research infrastructures, testbeds, and measurement platforms, and helped to foster a now vibrant research area focused on understanding Internet-scale network phenomena.

For anchoring a line of network architecture research that represented a sharp conceptual break from the internet-centric focus of the community at the time, substantially broadened the scope of applicability of networked computer communication, and remains a vital and active research topic today serving domains ranging from resource-poor rural environments to interplanetary space science support.

2012 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award (to be presented at SIGCOMM 2013, but recipient can choose to be recognized at CoNEXT 2013):

Shyamnath Gollakota (winner)

The dissertation provides a fundamentally new and practical way to deal with interference in the wireless medium, often rendering it harmless or even turning it into an advantage. While traditional wireless systems have attempted to avoid interference, this thesis is the first to practically demonstrate techniques to decode packets under significant interference and leveraging it for improved security. The thesis is transformative and can significantly impact the design of future wireless communication systems.

Ashok Anand (runners up)

The dissertation presents a range of innovative techniques to eliminate redundancies in traffic across diverse hosts, routers, and networks across the Internet. The work itself is rigorous and comprehensive in its treatment of redundancy elimination techniques. As the demand for Internet bandwidth continues to be higher than ever before, such approaches can prove to be highly beneficial.

Laurent Vanbever (runners up)

The dissertation provides fundamental innovations that allow a network to be re-configured without causing inconsistencies in network routing structures. The thesis encompasses good theoretical concepts that ensure global correctness properties and practical manifestations of these concepts to make them deployable. As networks around us continue to get more complex, the techniques developed in this thesis provide significant tools to improve efficient management of these networks.

2012 Rising Star Award (was presented at CoNEXT 2012):

Teemu Koponen

This award to Teemu Koponen is in recognition of outstanding research contributions, early in his career, on Information Centric Networking, Accountable Internetworking, and Software Defined Networking. His architectural ideas are deep, have influenced other researchers, and crucially, he has put in signficant effort in figuring out how to transfer the ideas effectively into practice.

Effective July 1, the new SIGCOMM Chair will be S. Keshav. Renata Cruz Teixeira will be Vice-Chair, and Joerg Ott will be Secretary Treasurer. The full officer list is at http://www.sigcomm.org/about/people

Elections for new SIGCOMM officers are underway, to elect a new Chair, Vice-Chair, and Treasurer. Please vote! If you are a SIGCOMM member, you should be receiving an email with your ten-digit PIN, which you'll need to cast your votes. http://www.acm.org/sigs/elections

The Executive Committee has selected Chicago as the city for SIGCOMM 2014. Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University) and Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University) will be the general chairs. More details including precise dates of the conference will come shortly.

This award to Teemu Koponen is in recognition of outstanding research contributions, early in his career, on Information Centric Networking, Accountable Internetworking, and Software Defined Networking. His architectural ideas are deep, have improved practice, and crucially, he has put in significant effort in figuring out how to actually make them happen.

Teemu gave the Keynote address at CoNEXT 2012 in Nice. More information about the Rising Star Award can be found here.

This annual award was created by SIGCOMM in 2011, and will recognize excellent thesis research by doctoral candidates in the field of computer networking and data communication. The SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award winner and up to two runners-up will be recognized at the ACM SIGCOMM conference. The award winner will receive a plaque, a $1,500 honorarium and a complimentary registration to the following year’s ACM SIGCOMM Conference. The runners-up each will receive a plaque.

Eligibility

Nominations are limited to one doctoral dissertation per department.

The final dissertation defense should take place at the nominee’s host institution during the 12 months before the submission deadline (see below).